"It's Shake & Bake!"
"And I helped!"
(mother and daughter to hubby/dad)

I don't know if I missed this along the way, but, to this day, my mother cannot hear "Blue Danube Waltz" without singing:
"Get Rival Dog Food! (dog barking quite musically) Arf! Arf! Arf! Arf!" (Try it!)

By the way, Festus on "Gunsmoke" was played by Ken Curtis (who used to sing with The Sons of the Pioneers and also was a writer/director). I tried reading all of the responses and might have missed someone answering it already.

As for "Jingle Bells", was it "Floating heads! Floating heads!" that you remembered, with Santa, seated on the electric shaver's much-vaunted "floating heads" for a smoother shave, snowboarding over the hills? That seemed to be trotted out every Christmas for a number of years in the Sixties.

"From the land of sky blue waters..." (with "Indian" chants and tom-toms sounding throughout the jingle~though I don't recall the rest of the lyrics~something like "Hamm's! The King of Beers!". I think that was Hamm's being hawked by a cartoon bear and all of his animated woodsy buddies.

"I'd walk a mile for a Camel." (After smoking a number of years, the customer wouldn't be able to walk a mile, but people didn't seem to think about that then.)

"It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!" It was for some butter substitute, but I don't recall which. Mother Nature was played by Dena Dietrich.

How about the little argumentative tub of Parkay~first "Butter!" then "Parfaaay!"

"I can't believe I ate the whole thing!" There were so many Alka Seltzer commercials, all of them very clever. They also had "Mama mia! That's-a specy spicy..." after the man in the commercial within a commercial had to keep eating during endless takes. What about the new husband whose wife is doing some experimental cooking? I think it was something like "I've never seen a meatball that size," from the ill-looking hubby. I can't remember the recipe she happily proclaims at the end of the commercial, perhaps sweet and sour something.

I don't remember much of this one except for "Hi, guy!" (delivered by big, genial Chuck McCann) and "Mona!", an end line that was an ad lib by an actor whose name slips my mind for now. Oh! It was Bill Fiore! Remember the commercial with the shared medicine cabinet, in which the slight, darkhaired man opened the cabinet door to come face-to-face with the guy in the next apartment? It was very cute and funny, and I think they did at least three of them. For the life of me, I can't remember WHAT they were advertising. Maybe it was a deodorant.

Speaking of Lark set to "The William Tell Overture": That set off a hilarious set of commercials that led to Clayton Moore in Lone Ranger regalia confronting the Lark guy about using HIS theme! Teehee! Later, Totino's Pizza Rolls (I believe it was) joined in the fray; their ad featured a takeoff of the Lark spokesman, talking people into trying a pizza roll, then the Lone Ranger AND Tonto (Jay Silverheels) entered the scene! I LOVED these ads! Talk about crossing universes! I just might have those on a VHS of classic ads.

Does anyone remember the amazing musical number that Great American Soups did with actress/singer/dancer Ann Miller as the housewife who launches into a song-and-dance number to tell her husband about all of the GAS (*giggle*) flavors? The kitchen set split in two and slid aside to reveal a stage worthy of an MGM musical. I don't recall the lyrics except for one line: "Let's face the Chicken Gumbo and dance!", at which point she goes into a wild tap dance routine. When she ends up in her husband's arms in the classic dip position, he wearily asks, "Emily, do you have to make such a big production of everything?" Mom and I still use that line when something seems overboard, too elaborate. By the way, it WAS excellent soup! My favorites were cream of mushroom and chicken noodle, and I probably WAS influenced by the ad.

I have memories of a dog food commercial in which you saw only the large dog's long legs, the food dish and a gaggle of ducklings that scurried around eating kibble from the dish and where it was spilled on the floor. In a voiceover, duck dialogue was supplied, something like: "I don't see a dog." "Do you see a dog?" "I don't see a dog!" etc. Most people look at me as if I've gone mad when I talk about this commercial. Anyone else remember it? If my mom didn't, I probably WOULD think it's my imagination.

In another dog food ad, the wife keeps telling the husband about the "lion food" they need to but. The husband says, "But Bijou isn't a lion!" Then, they show a tiny scruffy dog, and the wife says, "HE thinks he is!"~at which point, the dog emits a lion's roar.

The same company did a reverse ad, in which the husband says, "But Bijou isn't a dog!" Cut to very large lion lounging on couch (if I recall). "HE thinks he is!" She delivers that line in that babying tone some of us use with our pets. Again, I haven't a clue what brand this was for.

I remember jingleless ads: "The Teaberry Shuffle" and "No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In" (Alka Seltzer). The latter instrumental was actually "Music to Watch Girls By"~I think; isn't it by the Bob Crewe Generation? Was the shuffle tune an original because my mind keeps bringing up a Herb Alpert tune ("The Spanish Flea?").

Oh! Remember the Alka Seltzer ad in which the guy sat in one chair with his cartoon stomach in another, arguing over what should not be eaten. "You eat pepperoni pizza, you're gonna get heartburn!" the stomach warns him. Or, was that for Rolaids? Commercials can become entertainment but leave you at a loss what they're advertising.

Wasn't there an ad for prunes: "Today the flavor! Tomorrow the wrinkles!"? They did several of these. In one, Ray Bradbury made a guest appearance, denying that he predicted that people in the future eat prunes!

"Where's the beef?!" was delivered by Clara Peller (Or, is that Pellar? I really should have checked.) But, which burger-seller was it for? Again, remember the commercial but forget the brand seems to be the norm--at least for me.

"In the valley of the Jolly~Ho! Ho! Ho~~Green Giant!" That even inspired a rock 'n' roll song!

I really have to stop this and do something else! But, this certainly is a brainshaker!